Sir Timothy Michael Martin O'Shea, FRSE (born 1949, Hamburg, Germany)[1] is the current Vice-Chancellor and Principal of The University of Edinburgh.
Prof. O'Shea grew up in London, attended the Royal Liberty School in Gidea Park, London and later went to school in Essex. A Computer Scientist, he was Master of Birkbeck College from 1998 and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 2001.
A graduate of the Universities of Sussex and Leeds, he has worked in the United States and for the Open University where he founded the Computer Assisted Learning Research Group and worked on a range of educational technology research and development projects, later becoming Pro-Vice-Chancellor there. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Department of Artificial Intelligence, from 1974-78.[2]
The most translated of his ten books is Learning and Teaching with Computers, co-authored with John Self and his most recent 2007 book, In Order to Learn, published by Oxford University Press, was co-edited with Frank Ritter, Josef Nerb and Erno Lehtinen.
Professor O'Shea became Principal of the University of Edinburgh in October 2002. He sits on the Boards of Scottish Enterprise, the Intermediary Technology Institute Scotland Ltd and the British Council. He is a member of the Governing Body of the Roslin Institute and is Convenor of the Research and Commercialisation Committee of Universities Scotland.
In 2004 he was elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Like many other Scottish educators, he was criticised for receiving large pay rises.[3] [4]
He was knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours.[5]
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